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In a psychedelic state, the relationship between your “narrative” and “minimal” selves seems to transform in unique ways.

It’s been 100 years since we discovered that the Universe was expanding. But if it’s expanding, then what is it expanding into?

Perhaps no existential question looms larger than that of our ultimate cosmic origins. At long last, science has provided the answers.

A brief guide to habits that separate deep understanding from superficial knowledge — and how to cultivate them.

Clear communication is good for business and life — but compelling communication can take you to another level.

Singularities frustrate our understanding. But behind every singularity in physics hides a secret door to a new understanding of the world.

End of life patients face mental health challenges uniquely existential and spiritual in nature — but psychedelics are emerging as a possible solution to relieve the suffering.

When you don’t have enough clues to bring your detective story to a close, you should expect that your educated guesses will all be wrong.

There is nothing more important to science than its ability to prove ideas wrong.

What do we mean by a black hole’s size? A photon sphere? The minimal stable orbit? The event horizon? The singularity? Which one is right?

The zero-point energy of empty space is not zero. Even with all the physics we know, we have no idea how to calculate what it ought to be.

Plants at room temperature show properties we had only seen near absolute zero.

The divers spend their waking hours either under hundreds of feet of water on the ocean floor or squeezed into an area the size of a restaurant booth.

Although a great many unidentified sights have been seen in the skies, none have conclusively demonstrated the presence of aliens. So far.

In the 20th century, many options abounded as to our cosmic origins. Today, only the Big Bang survives, thanks to this critical evidence.

Are you unhappy with how various events in your life turned out? Perhaps, in a parallel Universe, things worked out very differently.

It’s knowledgeable, confident, and behaves human-like in many ways. But it’s not magic that powers AI though; it’s just math and data.

Growing evidence suggests a link between the debilitating neurological illness and the microbes that live in our intestines. The vagus nerve may be a pathway.

Here in our Universe, both normal and dark matter can be measured astrophysically. But only normal matter can collapse. Why is that?

As the Sun ages, it loses mass, causing Earth to spiral outward in its orbit. Will that cool the Earth down, or will other effects win out?

A next-generation LHC++ could cost $100 billion. Here’s why such a machine could end up being a massive waste of money.

We thought the Big Bang started it all. Then we realized that something else came before, and it erased everything that existed prior.

If there are three neutrino species, all with different masses, then how is energy conserved when they oscillate from one flavor to another?

Studies suggest that meditation can quiet the restless brain.

Travel half the distance to your destination, and there’s always another half to go. Despite Zeno’s Paradox, you always arrive right on time.

Quantum mechanics has taught us that even empty space contains energy. “Negative energy” is the state of having less energy than empty space.

A researcher explains a little-known niche within modern physics: animal collective behavior.

For thousands of years, we puzzled at how far away the Moon was. Today we know its distance, at any time, to within millimeters.

“When you feel the isolation setting in at times, you have to reframe your mindset.”

CERN’s Large Hadron Collider is the most powerful particle accelerator ever. To go even further, we’ll have to overcome something big.